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Oh, wow. I have come to expect nonsensical silliness from him but this is a new level of ridiculous posturing.

Disrupting a talk simply because you don’t like AI or fintech is, for lack of a better term, lame. A payment processor isn’t responsible for the climate emergency, and a company isn’t evil for having a wealthy founder or having to do layoffs.

His upset is misplaced.

a company isn’t evil for ... having to do layoffs

"have to" is carrying a lot of water for the fintech with >5 billion in revenue

Honestly it's past time we recognized a lot of open source orgs and participants have an adulting problem

That's not at all limited to open source orgs and participants I've found. Seems to be a large percentage of the world these days, really...

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